Fortune eBay-PayPal spin-off: Why shareholders are loving itFortuneEbay shareholders like the company's recent decision to spin-off payment processor PayPal. Its shares are up by almost 8% since the news broke. Investors in other companies should take note. Recent research shows that spin-offs are better for … More: continued here

EBay Inc. (EBAY)'s separation from PayPal casts the online marketplace into an environment where the stakes are much higher as Amazon.com Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. battle for global supremacy. Devin Wenig, 47, will continue to lead EBay's marketplace business as chief executive officer after the split, inheriting an …

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How to Invest in eBay as PayPal Spinoff NearsBarron’sThe risk to selling puts on eBay is that the stock could follow the broad market lower (as it's doing today). What's more, Carl Icahn and other activist investors could pressure the stock if they decide not to wait for the separation …

ABC News Could a Merger Follow the PayPal-eBay Split?ABC NewsPayPal's split from long-time partner eBay Inc. makes Carl Icahn mighty happy. But he doesn't think PayPal should stay single for long. Icahn, who months ago called on eBay to spin off the lucrative online and mobile payment service, continues to …

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Tab Bonidy carries a concealed pistol everywhere he goes. It offers him a sense of safety even in Avon, Colorado, a mountain town so small its lone post office doesn't offer home delivery. More: continued here

Slate Magazine (blog) At Long Last, eBay Sets PayPal FreeSlate Magazine (blog)Today eBay announced that it will spin PayPal off into a separate publicly traded company in 2015. Aside from being a major breakup, the move is a dramatic about-face for a company that, until very recently, had insisted its …

The Philadelphia Tribune The Wilt Chamberlain U.S. postage stamp is fittingly extra tallComcast SportsNet Philadelphia (blog)Philadelphia native Wilt Chamberlain will get the honor of appearing two official U.S. postage stamps in the coming months. The design for the two stamps were recently released and one of them features an image …

eBay, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) was given high marks by the market this week when the company finally capitulated to the outside pressure by Carl Icahn and others to begin the process of splitting off PayPal … More: continued here

GeekWire eBay to spin off PayPal in 2015, CEO John Donahoe stepping downGeekWireebayinc_signage Shares of eBay jumped more than six percent on Tuesday as the online retailer and marketplace announced plans to spin off its PayPal payments business in 2015, a plan that was originally proposed by activist investor Carl …